The Deck - Saturday Afternoon

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It was sunny out, and the cold felt more like nearly spring to Rose than the middle of winter.  And it was sunny out which is what she was really looking for.  Sure, it'd be sunny all next week in the Bahamas and maybe she should spend her time packing instead, but the sun now was the point. 

She stretched out on one of deck chairs, feeling the sun on her face.  She was trying not to think about anything.  Definitely not the past few weeks, definitely not wondering how it'd be to go back to living completely nocturnally again once she returned to Lissa, and definitely not what was going to happen with whatever understanding she and Dimitri had reached over the past few days.

Except as happened so often, between not actually doing anything and trying not to think about things, Rose found herself pondering all of them and paying less attention to the warm sun.  She so needed to get up and find a distraction. 

[OOC:  Deck, open, no roof, all that, yes]

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[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"So...sunscreen," Kyle admitted. "Probably a good idea. I'll come look for you when we get there. Unless you use it all first."

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"I got a lot," she told him. "And I don't burn so much so I'm not totally worried."

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"Why don't you burn? You're paler than I am." That was questionable, but Kyle was insistent.

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"Half-Turkish," Rose said with a shrug then added. "It's a Middle Eastern country. The people there are a little darker. It makes me tan unless it's really fucking bright out."

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"I think you're pale," he said. Yep, just like Kyle was incredibly short.

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Rose shrugged, glancing at her arm. "Just not tan yet. Why, you worried I'm gonna get sunburned, Tiny?"

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"Wouldn't want you to look like a tomato on vacation."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Says the kid who didn't know about sunscreen until 10 minutes ago."

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"Until you enlightened me," he pointed out. "Now I have to worry about it."

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"I promise I will wear plenty of suncreen and fail to look like a tomato," Rose promised. "My bikini's burgundy. It wouldn't look right."

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"You're wearing a bikini?" He laughed, not unkindly. "You don't strike me as the bikini beach girl type." He'd seen them on TV.

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Rose snerked. "What's a bikini beach girl type?" she asked.

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"The type to...wear bikinis?"

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"Hey, I look great in a bikini," Rose told him.

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"You probably do," Kyle agreed. "But it's not exactly the kind of clothes you can fight in."

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"Hoping not to fight this trip," Rose admitted. Unlike the one last week or a few weeks ago. "But if I have to, mine's pretty good to move in without falling off."

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"Don't tell some of the guys that. They'll get disappointed." Yeah, he was deserving of a smack across the head now and he knew it.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Instead she moved to try to smack that apple out of his hand, more than half-laughingly.

"And you know I live to disappoint boys. Now I totally will tell 'em all."

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

It was food, so while Rose was successful at smacking the apple, he quickly snatched it back mid-air before it had a chance to hit the ground. It was food, after all. He scowled at her, not meaning a moment of it, and took another bite of his hard-earned apple. "But then you'll end up," he said, mouth frothing with apple bits, "with everyone wanting to prove you wrong."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

There were reasons Rose liked him so much, and the apple catch was totally one of them.

Rose smirked. "They can try. Won't work."

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"Should I round everyone up so they can take turns trying? Or would that get you trying to steal my apple again?"

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"Probably get me dunking you a lot in the ocean," Rose decided.

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"You wouldn't want me to get caught in the surf, would you?"

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"Depends on if you can swim or not," she informed him.

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"I figured out how to float in Professor Bond's class?" he offered.